Harry P.

Interesting to see the model is listed on Hornby's site for 499 British pounds ($768)... quite a bit cheaper than the $850 everyone else is charging... but that price is only good for UK and Ireland orders.

Don't know. It would be interesting to find out.

I'm saving my pennies for the new Pocher kit...

Yeah, that has to be a typo.

Final vote: 51 REAL, 7 MODEL. And it's a MODEL! http://luxedb.com/buy-ralph-lauren’s-classic-cars-–-in-18-scale/

It's like watching a real chassis being welded up from scratch! You are one heck of a craftsman!

Very carefully! And by wicking CA glue along the length of the wire. I take a large sewing needle and use a grinding bit in my Dremel to grind off the top part of the "eye," which leaves an open-ended "U" shape. Then I apply a small drop of CA to the end of the needle... the glue kind of sits there filling the "U"... then I just touch that end of the needle to the wire (on the wood side of the wire, not the upholstery side) and the CA is drawn into the joint. Repeat that maybe 2-3 times along the entire length of the wire to make sure that there's CA along the whole joint. If any CA was showing, I used very fine sandpaper to sand it off the wood and the wire, and finally I brushed some Future onto the wood to give it a little gloss. BTW... that needle trick is what I use all the time when I want to have extreme control and precision as to where the CA needs to go.

WOW!! Absolutely beautiful!

Exactly. In fact I used 2 different gauges on the door panels–thinner on the top piece, thicker on the bottom piece.

Can't really blame the magazine, they go by whatever information the supplier/distributor/manufacturer gives them. Sometimes companies get a little too far ahead of themselves in announcing new products.

The problem with using solder, especially the really thin stuff, is that while it does bend easily, it's hard to get perfectly straight sections without little fluctuations in the straightness. Thin guitar string has an inherent stiffness that will make it much easier to keep the straight sections perfectly straight. Another alternative is thin beading wire, used to string beads for necklaces. I found it in the jewelry aisle at Hobby Lobby. It's a little stiffer than thin solder would be. It's what I used on these custom door panels:

Get a can of gloss clear, flat clear and satin clear... and then you have all you need to make any color any level of gloss. As long as you have those three cans of clear in the three different gloss levels, you can use any paint–gloss, flat, whatever you have on hand–then add the level of gloss you need with the clear.

Please post questions in the Question and Answer section, not in the Tips section.

Oh yeah!

I'm sure they would if they could, but budgets are a problem. A lot of states are almost broke, so adding any new government "services" (and I use that term loosely!) is going to be tough.

The accuracy of scale varies a lot from model to model. Some are correct, some others are way off.

Matt, cool model! I like it...

Nice work, Phil. Any photos of the chassis or engine?

Yeah, just a bit!

I wish gas around here was "only" $3.25/gallon!

It's such a joke. Certain parts of the state get tested, others don't.

So I tried again today. Wow! What a difference! No line at all, I pulled right in to the test bay. I was in and out in 5 minutes. I guess it really does depend on the time of the month you go in. Lesson learned!

It's supposed to snow here later this week!

Agree or disagree with her politics, you can't disagree that she was more important in the overall scheme of things than Annette Funicello was.

Shipping costs.